The Epic Successors of Virgil : A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Roman Literature and its Contexts
ISBN-10
052141542X
ISBN-13
9780521415422
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 17th, 1992
Print length
141 Pages
Weight
274 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
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A critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire.
This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgil''s Aeneid, an epic interpreted not just as a monument to the heroic construction of the principate, but also as a problematical text that challenged succeeding epic poets to a reworking of the issues that it dramatised: the possibility of establishing a lasting age of peace, the relation between power and the sacred, the difficulties of distinguishing between good and its evil parodies, anxiety about imperial and poetic succession. The author draws on modern critical and theoretical approaches to argue for the vitality and interest of works which have all too often been relegated to a second division of literary history.
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